wsba-hockey 0.1.1

WeakSide Breakout's complete Python package of access to hockey data, primairly including the scraping of National Hockey League schedule, play-by-play, and shifts information.

WSBA HOCKEY

A Python package for scraping and analyzing hockey data under the motto: Evaluating, analyzing, and understanding the game of hockey through the lens of different analytical methods, including incorporation of analytics.

INSTALLATION AND USAGE

pip install wsba_hockey

import wsba_hockey as wsba

ALL FEATURES

Note: Features yet included are marked with *

SCRAPING

NHL Play-by-Play (of any game frame up to a full season)

Functions:

wsba.nhl_scrape_game(['2024020918'],split_shifts=False,remove=['game-end'])
wsba.nhl_scrape_season('20242025',split_shifts=False,remove=['game-end'],local=True)

NHL Season Information

wsba.nhl_scrape_schedule('20242025')
wsba.nhl_scrape_seasons_info(seasons=['20212022','20222023','20232024','20242025])
wsba.nhl_scrape_standings(arg = '2024-03-20')

NHL Rosters and Player Information

wsba.nhl_scrape_player_info(wsba.nhl_scrape_roster('20242025'))

DATA ANALYTICS

Expected Goals (WeakSide Breakout and MoneyPuck models)*

Goal Impacts and Shot Analysis*

Stat Aggregation*

Shot Plotting (Plots, Heatmaps, etc.)*

REPOSITORY

Past Season Play-by-Play*

Team Information*

Schedule*

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS AND CREDITS

Huge thanks to the following:

Harry Shomer - Creator of the hockey_scraper package, which contains select utils functions utilized in this package and otherwise inspires the creation of this package.

Dan Morse - Creator of the hockeyR package; another important inspiration and model for developing an NHL scraper.